| The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum: A Colonial History Contributor(s): Van Dijk, Janneke (Editor), Legene, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9068327518 ISBN-13: 9789068327519 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2015 Annotation: In this volume the exhibition "Eastward Bound! Art, Culture and Colonialism" forms the background against which a variety of experts discuss the issue of the museums collection which, along with the history of the formation of the collection, forms a unique source of knowledge about the way in which the Dutch have handled issues surrounding colonialism and decolonization in the past centuries. A variety of objects, representative for the four phases in the colonial relations, from 1600, through the period of colonial expansion with Dutch administration, ethical politics and finally decolonization, are depicted. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | Asian - General |
| Series: Collections at the Tropenmuseum |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8.7" W x 10.5" (2.16 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum, sections of the well-known ethnographic collections from Indonesia are interpreted as colonial collections. As such, these objects and images express a specific culture of colonialism and colonial society in which ethnography, art, applied art and crafts from Europe and Southeast Asia merge. For more than a century, these objects and images have played a dynamic role in creating coherence in the ethnographic collections as a whole. Through this new interpretation of such objects as colonial collections, the contours of the many diverging and contradictory social relationships that existed within colonial society become visible. In eight essays, invited authors elaborate on this approach and challenge the Tropenmuseum to extend its policies on the interpretation and presentation of ethnographnic collections in a national and international dialogue on art, cultural heritage and the legacies of colonial culture. |